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ratis, setis v. nisi in ovario subnullis.— British Guiana. Schom- 
burgk, n. 961.—Some of the specimens come very near to 
Melastoma biglomeratum (Bonpl.) placed by De Candolle in 
Miconia, but which appears rather to be a Clidemia. 
371. C. (Paniculate) radulefolia (sp. n.); ramis tere- 
tibus, petiolis inflorescentiaque setis confertis subadpressis 
= dense hirsutis, foliis oblongis acuminatis vix serrulatis basi 
angustatis 3-5-nerviis, nervis superioribus a basi distantibus, 
supra strigis brevibus densis e pustula ortis asperrimis, sub- 
tus hirsutis, paniculze terminalis ramis oppositis apice flores 
confertos gerentibus bracteis ovato-orbiculatis intermixtis.— 
Affinis ex descr. C. bracteate, mutabili et lappacee. Folia 
= #6-poll. longa. Bractez calyce dimidio breviores, extus 
= Setoso-hispidissima, intus glabree. Flores 5-meri. Calyces 
setoso-hispidissimi, dentibus brevibus duplicatis, interioribus 
. obovatis membranaceis, exterioribus setosis. Petala oblongo- 
spathulata. Stigma obtusum.— British Guiana, (Expedition 
to the Rio Negro). Schomburgk, n. 998. 
S: era C. (Paniculate) desmantha (sp. n.); ramulis sub- 
teretibus paniculisque tomento rufo stellato subfloccoso den- 
80 obtectis setisque paucis hinc inde munitis, foliis breviter 
petiolatis oblongis acuminatis subintegerrimis basi rotundatis 
areolato-rugosis utrinque presertim subtus pube stellata de- 
. mum evanida tomentellis, panicule ramis paucis oppositis, 
-floribus parvis dense globoso-glomeratis, calycibus demum 
glabratis dentibus brevissimis subduplicatis, ovario breviter . 
. &dnato stellato setoso.—Folia 3-5-poll. longa. ^ Bractec 
a lineari-lanceolatee rufo-tomentose demum in glomerulis. 
.. florum recondita, Calyces vix lineam longi. Setarum fasci- 
. Culi in ovario numerosi seriati. Loculi ovarii 5. Fructus 
E non vidi. — Pedrero. Schomburgk, n. 884. 
: Gardner's n. 223, 384, and 387, and Cuming's n. 1258, 
 àre Clidemig, of the group of Paniculate, to which I should 
also refer Leandra sylvestris (DC.) and other Leandre with | 
 Paniculate flowers and small bracts. L.involucrata(DC.), L. 
villosa, DC. (to which belong Gardner's 382 and 383), L. - 
scabra (DC.), and a few others, may be considered as form- 
